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All Defected From Him
Political Betrayal in Moments of Crisis
Jon Dell Isola
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Keeping it in the Family
What is the meaning of Arnulf's weird name?
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Finding my Ozymandias
How do historians decide what to study?
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Chance Encounters of the Arnulf Kind
Webs of Connections in the Ninth Century
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A Medieval National Convention?
Assemblies, Ritual, and Political Communication
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Reading Empire in the Archive
Visions of East Frankish Imperium in a Vienna Manuscript
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The King's Failing Body
What can a ninth century crisis of legitimacy teach us about Joe Biden's own crisis?
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Borges' Library of Babel and the Internet Age
I am away traveling this week, so I decided to write something a little different, hopefully you enjoy my writing (or rambling, take your pick). Earlier this year I read, for the first time, Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Library of Babel and was struck by how relevant it
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Vikings and Kings and Battles, oh my
Subscribe now Later this week I will be traveling across the Atlantic to one of the biggest conferences for medieval historians in the world, the Leeds International Medieval Congress. This year I am moderating a panel as well as presenting some of my own research. For my own paper I
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Bastard, Usurper, King
"Illegitimate" sons and political destiny
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An Early Medieval Murder Mystery
or, did Arnulf have his cousin killed?
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